Treading lightly on the planet has always been second nature to Herefordshire events venue Crumplebury.
Now its focus on sustainability and responsible estate management has been recognised with a series of award nominations.
It’s been shortlisted for January’s 2023 Greengage Insights and Sustainability Awards, in the Sustainability Initiative of the Year Accommodation and Meetings Venues category.
It’s also in the running for Best Business and Conferencing Venue in the 2022/23 Visit Worcestershire Tourism Awards, due to be announced in March.
And it’s a finalist in the 2022 Travel & Hospitality Awards, too.
The 11-bedroom events and wedding venue in Whitbourne, with its own farm-to-fork fine dining restaurant, organic farm, forestry operation and game shoot, opened in 2019.
The build, by Worcester architects Glazzards, was designed to carefully sit within the historic landscape of the Whitbourne Estate, which provided timber for the well-insulated spaces.
Biomass boilers – fed by waste timber from the Whitbourne Estate forestry operation – heat the buildings and a bore-hole drilled last spring supplies all water for the site.
Four EV charging points have been installed in the car park and state-of-the-art devices limit light and noise pollution from the buildings.
The new Crumplebury Canopy Project encourages guests to offset the carbon emissions created as they travel to the venue by planting trees in the managed woodland, and a fresh initiative to create an outdoor boardroom is under way.
“We’re absolutely delighted to have been shortlisted for these awards, which recognise our commitment to the environment,” says Managing Director Joe Evans.
“When we built Crumplebury, it was our aim to create spaces which offer a refreshing break from the norm, whether you’re here for a corporate event, dinner, weekend away or a wedding.
“Our private estate, surrounded by 1,500 acres of woodland, green fields and the animals on our home farm, makes for indoor and outdoor spaces which create a working environment with a difference.”
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Crumplebury is hosting a series of events this Christmas. A candlelit performance by the English Symphony Orchestra takes place on November 11. Christmas Party nights will be held on December 2nd, 3rd and 9th. A five-course, gastronomic Christmas Feast is planned for December 10th. December 11th sees a Festive Afternoon Tea taking place. And on December 17th, 18th and 19th, the estate will be transformed into a winter wonderland for the Christmas for the Kids events, where families will join an enchanted trail through the woods to meet Father Christmas in a candlelit grotto, meeting Crumplebury’s farm friends along the way.